good+behavior

  • 11on one's good behavior — {adv. phr.} Behaving right to make a good impression. * /While his father was around the boy was on his good behavior, but when the father left the boy soon got into mischief./ * /The minister is coming to dinner, and Mother wants us to be on our …

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  • 12on one's good behavior — {adv. phr.} Behaving right to make a good impression. * /While his father was around the boy was on his good behavior, but when the father left the boy soon got into mischief./ * /The minister is coming to dinner, and Mother wants us to be on our …

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  • 13on\ one's\ good\ behavior — adv. phr. Behaving right to make a good impression. While his father was around the boy was on his good behavior, but when the father left the boy soon got into mischief. The minister is coming to dinner, and Mother wants us to be on our good… …

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  • 14during good behavior — See good behavior …

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  • 15on one's good behavior — phrasal or upon one s good behavior 1. : in a state of trial with the final disposition dependent upon proper conduct 2. : well behaved …

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  • 16upon one's good behavior — phrasal see on one s good behavior …

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  • 17Behavior — Be*hav ior, n. Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one s self; conduct; deportment; carriage; used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. [1913 Webster] A… …

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  • 18good time — n: a deduction for good behavior made from a convict s term of imprisonment Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. good time …

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  • 19Behavior modification — is the use of empirically demonstrated behavior change techniques to improve behavior, such as altering an individual s behaviors and reactions to stimuli through positive and negative reinforcement of adaptive behavior and/or the reduction of… …

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  • 20behavior — I noun actions, air, bearing, beliefs, carriage, character, comportment, conduct, consuetude, course, course of conduct, course of life, decorum, demeanor, deportment, habits, habituation, habitude, inveteracy, line of conduct, manner, manner of… …

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